More than 100 Firefighters Battle Sylmar Strip Mall Blaze

Los Angeles firefighters put out hot spots Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, at the scene of a large fire that broke out at a strip mall on the 12700 block of San Fernando Road in Sylmar. (Photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News)

Firefighters Monday extinguished a greater-alarm blaze that damaged part of an L-shaped strip mall in Sylmar, and no one was hurt.

The fire was reported December 10th at 3:47 a.m. at 12777 San Fernando Road and extinguished in about two hours and 50 minutes, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Firefighters were forced out of the interior and off of the roof on one section of the building because the structural integrity of the roof over the unit where the fire burned was poor, and a section of the roof eventually collapsed, the LAFD reported.

More than 100 firefighters were assigned to the blaze. The majority of the businesses were saved, LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey said.

The cause of the fire was under investigation. A damage estimate was not immediately available.